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• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization.
  Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey...
• There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love. -- Edward Abbey
• Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in actio
  Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. -- Edward Abbey...
• Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. -- Edward Abbey
• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There never was a good war or a bad revolution. -- Edward Abbey
• Beware of the man who has no enemies. -- Edward Abbey
• The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb.
  How can we ever thank them? -- Edward Abbey...